Part biography, part reflection of Frida Kahlo’s work, this book examines the painter’s life.

With a billionaire husband and lovely daughter, as well as an expanding career Salma Hayek really is happy with her lot, writes Helen Barlow.

The Egyptian Enchantment. A Lottie Lipton Adventure by Dan Metcalf (Bloomsbury, €6.40)

Choreographer Caroline Bowditch didn’t get Mexican artist Frida Kahlo until she discovered she too was disabled, she tells Ellie O’Byrne.

Do you know what vanity capital is? It’s an industry based on selling us things that we don’t need, but which make us feel better — and its worth €3.4 trillion says Suzanne Harrington

This Saturday’s Irish Examiner Weekend magazine has a very special photoshoot in store for its fashion followers.

When the sun shines — the tough do housework. This week Esther N McCarthy picks an eco beauty — and some other stuff too...

Ray D'arcy returns with the series School Around the Corner on RTE One at 6.30pm tonight.

ALISTAIR Darling, Groucho Marx and Denis Healey share the defining attribute for fashionable faces this season.

Liam Neeson, Salma Hayek, Melissa McCarthy and John Travolta will present at the Oscars.

IF EVER Florence Welch creates her own fragrance, it should be called Vintage, and for authenticity its top note would be the musty tang of second-hand clothes.

The Lacuna

Hollywood beauty Salma Hayek has been instructed to pile on pounds of weight in preparation for her new big screen role as a serial killer.

Madonna is lending London's Tate Modern art gallery two of her favourite pictures.

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is, for many women, a heroine of epic proportions.Here, her story is brought to the screen in a film which succeeds only in part.

Hollywood stars Salma Hayek and George Clooney braved the cold London weather to attend separate premieres of their new films.

IRISH actor Daniel Day-Lewis and U2 are among the nominees for this year’s Oscars.

Mexican actress Salma Hayek was keeping mum on what she’ll be wearing for Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony as she charmed guests at a Beverly Hills party this week.

Pop superstar Madonna was adding her razzmatazz to the UK art world’s premier celebration today as she hands over the Turner Prize.

Pop superstar Madonna will add her razzmatazz to the UK art world’s premier celebration tomorrow as she hands over the Turner Prize.